Cyber-matchmaking among Indians: Re-arranging marriage and doing ‘kin work’
Cyber-matchmaking among Indians: Re-arranging marriage and doing ‘kin work’
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印度人的网络婚介：重新安排婚姻并做“亲属工作”
DOI：
10.1080/14746689.2015.1024591
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
0.3
通讯作者：
Anuja Agrawal
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作者：
Anuja Agrawal
本文从社会学角度分析了印度城市人口和非居民人口中日益流行的网络婚介服务。包办婚姻制度受到许多压力的影响，例如社交网络的衰落、地域流动性高以及选择婚姻伴侣的复杂性日益增加。包办婚姻正在通过这种服务获得新生，这种服务正在日益取代和渗透其他商业婚介媒体。有人认为，虽然大家庭和亲属现在不太倾向于直接参与婚介过程，但使用互联网中介服务本身就成为了进行这种“亲属工作”的一种手段。主要的印度在线婚介结合了各种全球在线婚介趋势的元素，因为它在不利于这种偏好延续的条件下促进了传统的婚姻偏好。这一分析显示了新技术是如何帮助维持种姓和社区身份和网络的，尽管是以新的形式。
This paper provides a sociological analysis of the increasing popularity of internet-based matchmaking services among the urban Indians and Non-resident Indians. The institution of arranged marriage is subject to numerous pressures, such as declining social networks, high geographical mobility and growing complexity in the choice of a marital partner, and is finding a new lease of life via such services that are increasingly replacing and penetrating other commercial matchmaking media. It is argued that while the extended family and kin are now less inclined to directly participate in the process of matchmaking, the use of internet-mediated services itself becomes a means of undertaking such ‘kin work’. The dominant Indian variant of online matchmaking is shown to be combining elements of varied global trends in online matchmaking insofar as it facilitates conventional marriage preferences under conditions that are less than favorable to perpetuation of such preferences. This analysis shows how the new technology is aiding in the sustenance of caste- and community-based identities and networks albeit in new forms.
网络社会
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发表时间：
2005
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Minerva Publishing Company
影响因子：
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作者：
HASHIMOTO Yoshiaki;YOSHII Hiroaki(eds.)
通讯作者：
YOSHII Hiroaki(eds.)